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Ariana Grande's concert at England's Manchester Arena ended in a mass emergency evacuation after reports of explosions, the Daily Mail reports. Emergency services are currently responding, according to Greater Manchester Police department. 

 

"There are a number of confirmed fatalities and others injured," Manchester police said in an official statement after the concert. Police are telling everyone to avoid the area so first responders can work. Details of a casualty bureau will follow.

 

 

"Ariana is okay. We are further investigating what happened," a Universal Music rep told Rolling Stone.

Audience members claim the first explosion occurred after Grande's last song at roughly 10:40 p.m. "Suddenly everybody started screaming and running for the exit ... We could hear the police and ambulance sirens. It was terrifying," a concertgoer told MailOnline. "There were thousands of people trying to get out at once. They were all screaming and crying. The whole place smelt smoky and burnt."

"We were making our way out and when we were right by the door there was a massive explosion and everybody was screaming," concertgoer Catherine Macfarlane told Reuters. "It was a huge explosion -- you could feel it in your chest. It was chaotic. Everybody was running and screaming and just trying to get out."

22-year-old Majid Khan told The Independent: "I and my sister, along with a lot of others were seeing Ariana Grande perform at Manchester Arena, and we were all exiting the venue when around 10:40, 10:45pm-ish, a huge bomb-like bang went off that hugely panicked everyone and we were all trying to flee the arena ... It was one bang and essentially everyone from the other side of the arena where the bang was heard from suddenly came running towards us as they were trying to exit Trinity Way and that was blocked so everyone was just running to any exit they could find as quickly as they could."

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "Police responded to reports of an incident at Manchester Arena. Please stay away from the area. More details to follow..."

The Manchester Arena is the United Kingdom's largest indoor venue and second-largest in Europe with a capacity of 21,000. The venue is located in Manchester, about three hours north of London.

Grande, the 23-year-old pop singer, was in the midst of her international tour supporting her 2016 album, Dangerous Woman.

This is a developing story. 

Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ariana-grande-concert-ends-in-emergency-after-explosions-w483720

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Dutch

It's so sad to see people tweeting about their missing children and friends, but on the other side it's amazing that social media could be useful for this. My heart is breaking.

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GlamGorgeousGG

Glad to hear about those of you that are safe...

but goodness even the main page of Yahoo had a photo of a victim  and I just can't imagine how this will affect all of the concert-goers especially the younger ones.

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Imagine how families that don't have any news from their kid that was at the concert must feel

It's horrible

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Dutch

It seems like there really is a men with a gun outside the Oldham Hospital... Not confirmed! 

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PerfectGypsy

That's it, I'm not going to Joanne now. I've been 3 times to Man arena and this is the sort of thing I've imagined happening in my scariest nightmares that I blamed to my anxiety. Who would ever think Manchester? My city is near to it and has a higher population. Just can't believe it I feel sick. 

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2 minutes ago, Dutch said:

It seems like there really is a men with a gun outside the Oldham Hospital... Not confirmed! 

Where is source?

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